Barry Creamer

Perhaps God’s greatest earthly gift to W.A. Criswell was Jack Pogue – the kind of disciple, supporter, advocate, friend and in the end, caregiver few if any would dare to imagine for their own life. I will not rehearse the stories some of you already know about the difference Dr. Criswell made in Jack’s life, or the difference Jack made in his. But I will rehearse this: Criswell College would not exist were it not for Jack Pogue. His financial commitment to the school is the reason it exists to this day.

For 50 years, abortion and the wars surrounding it have become entrenched in society’s normalcy. With the overturn of Roe and Casey, the pro-life and pro-choice sides of the issue have a choice to make.

Scientists "know how to do things ethicists shouldn't handle without adult supervision," college president Barry Creamer writes, while ethicists "address matters neither visible through the medical researcher's most advanced microscope nor comprehended by even the most persuasive rhetoric. … Certainly neither should wish for the other simply to go away."